Hello, friends.
This is the best and most exciting week of the fantasy season. It's a time for taking the final steps towards a championship, staying laser-focused on every minute decision within your control; whether to eke out one or two more points to pass your final rival in roto (or keep from being passed) or trying to win one final head-to-head matchup.
Or, perhaps it's a time to coast because your in-season dominance has been such that the chances of being caught have approached a literal zero. Ahh, now that's nice -- getting to enjoy the fruits of your labors a week early, taking deep inhales from championship flowers while exhaling some cutting and clever burns on your vanquished league-mates, perhaps referencing their past trash talk that now seems very foolish, in hindsight. "Ha-ha!", you might say. "You said that my fantasy baseball team was going to be very bad but it is, in fact, the best fantasy baseball team. In your face -- ha-ha, HA!".*
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My plea is towards Tim… please give Nicklaus a raise! A+ article, thanks gents
When I played ESPN fantasy baseball, I was always 1st place because I didn’t rely upon one guy for the whole season. I usually drafted some core players that were fairly reliable for production and beyond that, I did DFS by reviewing the best teams in the best spot to perform and just loaded up on them and then dumped them immediately after lock. Super easy and lead the league in points each year. The past few years, I just haven’t had the time to focus on that so I haven’t played.